June 15, 2026 @ 2:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Criminals stole nearly £1.28 billion through payment fraud in 2025, according to the latest annual figures from UK Finance, marking a 4% rise from the previous year. The data underscores how fraud has evolved into a large-scale operation that endangers individuals, companies, and the broader… Read More

 Tagged financial crime, fraud, scams, uk finance, united kingdom

June 14, 2026 @ 10:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ten years on from the Brexit vote, UK Finance has released a detailed report in partnership with law firm Freshfields, proposing a fresh strategic approach to ties between Britain and the European Union in the financial sector. Titled Unlocking Growth Through a Stronger UK-EU Financial… Read More

 Tagged EU, europe, financial services, uk finance, united kingdom

June 14, 2026 @ 6:26 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

New developments with MiCA and Nacha provide us with an acronym-heavy bonus digital assets Thoughts of the Week. MiCA Growing pains “Regulations are quite new, both for regulators and for the entities that are in the market. We are learning how to be fully compliant, and… Read More

 Tagged fca, mica, Morphic Financial Group, nacha

June 14, 2026 @ 5:55 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The checkbooks were opened this week as several fintechs announced impressive raises. Canton Creator Digital Asset Raises $355M Andreesen Horowitz’s crypto fund, a16z crypto, led a $355 million funding round for Digital Asset, the creator of Canton, this week. Additional participants included 7RIDGE, ABN Amro,… Read More

 Tagged current, digital asset, Earlytrade, koho, TITAN, vinyl, Zaro.ai

June 13, 2026 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple has announced an expanded partnership with Bitso, strengthening their efforts to enhance payments via DLT / blockchain technology. The collaboration focuses on integrating Bitso’s MXN-backed stablecoin, known as MXNB, into the XRP Ledger’s (XRPL) permissioned decentralized exchange (DEX) framework. This development aims to enhance… Read More

 Tagged bitso, digital assets, latam, ripple

June 12, 2026 @ 12:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) has entered a strategic partnership with OpenAI to integrate its payment infrastructure into AI-powered shopping environments. Announced on June 10, 2026, during the Visa Payments Forum in San Francisco, the collaboration aims to make transactions smoother, safer, and more reliable as artificial… Read More

 Tagged ai, openai, payments, visa

June 12, 2026 @ 8:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA), a leading consulting and data group that supports online capital formation, has launched a new series of “Crowdfinance Indices.” The benchmarks are updated daily and cover Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF), the smallest securities exemption that enables online capital formation. These Indices… Read More

 Tagged cca, crowdfund capital advisors, reg cf, regulation cf

June 12, 2026 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Citigroup (NYSE: C) is rolling out a blockchain-powered platform enabling wealthy individuals and institutional clients to trade tokenized shares of privately held firms. This initiative comes at a pivotal moment, as anticipation builds around massive public debuts from key industry players like SpaceX and Anthropic,… Read More

 Tagged anthopic, citigroup, ipos, spacex, tokenized securities

June 12, 2026 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Finance has indicated that lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the UK surged in early 2026, marking a notable recovery in business finance activity. According to the latest Business Finance Review from UK Finance, gross lending to SMEs climbed 16 percent compared… Read More

 Tagged credit, lending, sme's, uk, united kingdom

June 12, 2026 @ 2:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE: NU), which remains Latin America’s largest digital banking / Fintech platform, has shared details of its ambitious artificial intelligence roadmap. During a recent Nu Videocast session, Chief Technology Officer Eric Young and Rohan Ramanath, General Manager of AI Core, explained how the bank’s… Read More

 Tagged ai, brazil, digital banking, latam, nubank